Refugee's mental health untreated in detention before tasered outside parliament, court hears

By Christopher Knaus
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:30pm, first published July 16 2015 - 11:05am

A refugee with severe mental health issues received an "appalling" lack of treatment in immigration detention before being tasered outside Parliament House, where he'd gone to tell politicians he was a prophet.

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